Living in the city can mean dealing with a lot of noise, which can have negative long-term effects on one’s health—but it doesn’t have to be that way.
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You don’t have to move into a condo or apartment tower to support—and experience the benefits of—smart urban growth.
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John Simmerman founded Active Towns to help cities think about and create more opportunities for physical activity within neighborhoods.
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Let's talk about public facilities. What do they say about our cities and about the various layers of our society?
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From health care to the economy, the pandemic is exposing the fragility of institutions we’ve long taken for granted.
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People are driving at half the normal rate. Now’s the time to cultivate new uses for our streets—uses which will help us both now and into the future.
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We were vulnerable to a crash long before coronavirus appeared. We all made promises to ourselves and each other that we never meant to keep.
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The New York Times (among others) is speculating that COVID-19 will spur a massive exodus from cities. These claims are based on two very dubious assumptions.
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Commentators have speculated that density has been toxic during the coronavirus crisis. But Joe Minicozzi of Urban3 did what he does best—he ran the numbers—and found a different story. This is why data should prevail during a pandemic.
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Do we open things up and get people back to work or do we continue to flatten the curve and live with the financial fallout? Economically, it’s a distinction without a difference.
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The debate now is between saving jobs and saving lives. But there was a deeper question we should have been asking a long time ago.
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What can generational theory tell us about the crisis we’re facing now, and how we will emerge from it?
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Communities are coming together right now in ways most of us have never seen before. And we’re realizing we really need each other. How can local leaders harness this energy to build stronger local communities and economies once the crisis recedes?
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Tracing the origins of a single meal reminds us how vulnerable we are to disruptions in the global supply chain. How do we create redundancies at home?
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In these challenging times, we’re re-learning how much we need each other. Here are some folks stepping up in a big way.
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What the use of face masks to slow coronavirus — or the lack of use — teaches us about why change is so hard.
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A touring musician reflects on how the speed and scale of life has contracted during the crisis. Does how we build our cities allow for a slower, more thoughtful pace during the good times too?
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Coronavirus may be the crisis of our time. Great leaders past and present demonstrate that one practice in particular can be the difference-maker.
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Some will use the spread of coronavirus as a knock against dense cities. But walkable, bikeable cities are also more adaptable — and will fare better in the long-run.
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If we do these simple things, we’ll set the stage not just to survive but to thrive once the pandemic dies down. (And it will die down.)
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